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The Imbecile-in-Chief denies that 3000 people died in Puerto Rico, because that many people didn't die during the actual hurricane event.

FEMA has very little to do with mitigating the actual weather event. They come in afterwards. The fact that so many people died afterwards only increases the possibility that FEMA did a less than stellar job.

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To survive election season on a skeptics forum, one must understand Hymie-the-Robot.

Whereas with term limits, securing lucrative employment once your term is ended becomes the dominating factor. I'm not sure that's better.

__________________"If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things" - Terry Pratchett

Whereas with term limits, securing lucrative employment once your term is ended becomes the dominating factor. I'm not sure that's better.

That was the one thing that kept me from supporting Term Limits, but now the craven behavior of the GOP congress in failing to carry out their basic duty of acting as a check to Presendential power has convinced me that we can afford a little greed a lot more then seeing our system of check balances go down the tubes because you want a lifelong career as a Congressman. I think we need to take away that option.

__________________Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

That was the one thing that kept me from supporting Term Limits, but now the craven behavior of the GOP congress in failing to carry out their basic duty of acting as a check to Presendential power has convinced me that we can afford a little greed a lot more then seeing our system of check balances go down the tubes because you want a lifelong career as a Congressman. I think we need to take away that option.

The Imbecile-in-Chief denies that 3000 people died in Puerto Rico, because that many people didn't die during the actual hurricane event.

FEMA has very little to do with mitigating the actual weather event. They come in afterwards. The fact that so many people died afterwards only increases the possibility that FEMA did a less than stellar job.

Not enough paper towels?

__________________'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman

House Republicans rejected an attempt by Democrats on Thursday to demand that the State Department turn over records related to President Donald Trump’s secretive one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Republicans made a deal with the Devil, but its the rest of us that are paying the price.

__________________As cultural anthropologists have always said "human culture" = "human nature". You might as well put a fish on the moon to test how it "swims naturally" without the "influence of water". -Earthborn

Given how much we complain about money in politics and now foreigners trying to influence elections, I'm not going to do that.

And it's not like I am going to put 100% trust in the Democratic party,either.
I could easily see the Dems,in power, becoming just as power hungry and ruthless as the GOP. Power corrupts,end of story.
Yes, I will vote democratic this November as an emergency measure, but ,frankly, I have no love for either of the major parties.

__________________Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Not long ago I was struck by a realization, one I don’t anticipate unstriking me: Donald Trump is without morals.

It was possible to figure his behavior present and past was due to differences in upbringing/education/career-path from the average person. We’ve all encountered bullies and cutthroats and liars and cheats, but deep down you knew they could, say, manage a little league team. Trump has none of it. No core, no base layer of good. Nothing.

No signal, all static. Empty.

John Barren.

Not long ago? Have you been in a coma? It's been obvious for many years.

Originally Posted by Ambrosia

Some times it's better to light a flamethrower, than curse the darkness.

Which to be fair is probably the most charitable thing he has ever done.

Yes, because it equals all his munificent deeds. Handing out stuff that other people donated, just like his "found-ations" (hey, we found this money Stephanie McMahon left behind, let's spend it on some gilt and glitter).

__________________Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele

It's not that liberals have become less tolerant. It's that conservatives have become more intolerable.

Yes, because it equals all his munificent deeds. Handing out stuff that other people donated, just like his "found-ations" (hey, we found this money Stephanie McMahon left behind, let's spend it on some gilt and glitter).

"John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!"

We're seeing a real world, actions instead of words version of a Gish Gallop.
He's argumentative concepts like "not even wrong" and "wronger than wrong"
made flesh.

That's... scary.

Because the only way to combat a Gish Gallop is to ignore it,
and that's not an option in the real world.

What? No...

Back in December of 2015, I noticed that out of the 333 and a third million
American people one could possibly elect as President of the United State,
only Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represented the best of the best,
the top of the top.

At that moment, I tuned out, turned off, and dropped in.

Basically, I cancelled all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions, hauled all
the televisions and radios in my house off to the dump to be squashed into a
small cube, and then retired to a WWII bomb shelter three stories underground.

Occasionally, I'll pop out of ground for an orange fruit and check these forums
for the latest news, which does not surprise by the way.

P.S. Have the Russians taken back Alaska yet?

__________________ Be very careful what you put in your head, because you will never get it out again. — Phineas Gage

And it's not like I am going to put 100% trust in the Democratic party,either.
I could easily see the Dems,in power, becoming just as power hungry and ruthless as the GOP. Power corrupts,end of story.
Yes, I will vote democratic this November as an emergency measure, but ,frankly, I have no love for either of the major parties.

Over the course of the past century there have been times when the Dems had control of both the Executive and Legislative branches, and times when the GOP has.

Given the established track record of the two, if I were to be compelled to choose one or the other, there is no question in my mind that the Dems would do less harm to the country.

__________________"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

Lou Dobbs
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More #FakeNews- The Hurricane Maria death tolls have been inflated & President @realDonaldTrump was right to call out organizations who threw out science and statistics to try to discredit his administration. #MAGA #TrumpTrain #Dobbs

"John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!"

"John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!"

It really is a compulsion for him to try and hit out at those he perceives to be his enemies.

It really is a compulsion for him to try and hit out at those he perceives to be his enemies.

He's also chewing over Manafort's impending plea bargain (it was all over the news yesterday), where he's expected to flip on Trump in exchange for getting out of some of his prison time for not registering as a foreign agent.

Minor quibble, GAO is Congress's watchdog agency. The president appoints the head of it who also serves as the Comptroller General of the United States but can only choose from a list of candidates Congress presents him. OPM does the care and feeding of employees but they work for Congress.

It really is a compulsion for him to try and hit out at those he perceives to be his enemies.

Compulsion, or carefully crafted tactic?

Witnessed and distilled by Roy Cohn, refined by Roger Stone, handed down to Donald Trump.

Admittedly, I can see how, over time, a tactic of continual lying and reflexive attacking of “enemies” can become internalized. To historians it may prove to be an interesting case of a tactic morphing into a pathology.

We’ll see what happens!

__________________“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that...I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” - President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017.
"And it's, frankly, disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And people should look into it." - President Donald J. Trump, October 11, 2017.

Witnessed and distilled by Roy Cohn, refined by Roger Stone, handed down to Donald Trump.

Admittedly, I can see how, over time, a tactic of continual lying and reflexive attacking of “enemies” can become internalized. To historians it may prove to be an interesting case of a tactic morphing into a pathology.

We’ll see what happens!

Cohn and Stone would have had to have had a Tardis to persuade Trump to have been so petty and vindictive all his life.

I do think that the attacks on the NFL might in part be due to the battle between the NFL and USFL where Trump didn't win.

__________________OECD healthcare spending
Expenditure on healthcarehttp://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm
link is 2015 data (2013 Data below):
UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending
US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending

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